Ken Owen '82 to Again Present 'Indy PR Legend Award'

November 30, 2014

"Ken Owen, executive director of media relations at DePauw University and a former Indianapolis TV news anchor (WISH, WRTV and WXIN) will emcee the award ceremony" when Donna Mikels Shea is honored as an "Indy PR Legend" on December 17, reports Inside Indiana Business.  The annual award is presented by the Indianapolis Public Relations Society, of which Owen is a member.

Shea is a legendary Indianapolis journalist who became the first-ever female assistant city editor of the Indianapolis Times and created the CASPER Awards, which honor journalists for stories that result in community improvements.

Owen has emceed the IPRS Legend Award presentation each year since its founding in 2008.

You'll find further details at Inside Indiana Business.

A 1982 graduate of DePauw, Ken Owen returned to his alma mater (where he was a communication major and Rector Scholar) in 2001 after two decades in TV news. Along with his responsibilities to raise the University's external visibility, he coordinates the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series and the annual Monon Bell telecast. In September, his letter to the editor was published in the Wall Street Journal and in 2012, he was called upon to moderate an Indiana gubernatorial debate.

Owen's efforts to make pieces of DePauw's past more relevant and accessible include the restoration of a 1941 admission film, and he has created "Monon Memories" of every football game between DePauw and Wabash College for the Monon Bell since the rivalry began in 1890. The video vignettes were the subject of features in the Chronicle of Higher Education and during HDNet's telecast of the 115th Monon Bell Classic in November 2008. (photo: Owen with Jimmy Kimmel before his November 8 Ubben Lecture at DePauw)

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